Naresh Sunkara
@naresh_sunkara
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Scientist turned into Entrepreneur; Helping translate lab research to startups. Founder, Nostalgic Foods. Host "Lab to Startup" https://t.co/MJubFIOM1W,
San Francisco , CA
Joined September 2014
We don't celebrate and reward our chefs (including parents who cook) enough! Michelin star chefs get some, but overall, most go unnoticed behind the scenes in the kitchens.
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“When conventional wisdom says our job is to summarise the contents of the brief, or the consumer insight, or the brand. Remember our job isn’t any of those things. Our job is to stand out, to provoke, to get noticed, get remembered. Our job is impact.” @davetrott
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The PhD system.....
Professor Freeman Dyson on the PhD system. His talks with me are one of the reasons I did not peruse a PhD or academia directly. “The PhD system is an abomination...it has ruined many lives”—2016 His views were not well received by many of his peers.
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A punch in the gut by a VC can be cured by talking to customers dying for your solution/product 😊. Always remember that the customers willing to pay know more than an investor who doesn’t believe in your startup.
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@naresh_sunkara Or to put it another way: our mastery over the spirit will finally catch up to our mastery over matter, so we can get beyond the precarious combination of (as MLK Jr brilliantly put it) “guided missiles and misguided men.”
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Elon Musk literally broke down his 5-step process for building anything faster, smarter, and cheaper:
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Too many investors rush to “professionalize” companies by replacing emerging CEOs (especially young PhDs) before they’ve had a real opportunity to develop. Others simply don’t have the operating experience to guide founders with depth, and unintentionally push them down the
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“if we can invent history, we can invent anything.” @davetrott
Do you enjoy the traditional UK Ploughman's Lunch? Fascinating article from @davetrott on how that "tradition" was invented in the 1960s to create demand for a largely unappealing product https://t.co/MtHtd6O8ZP
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One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the
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"humans are gods who shit" 🤣. Good conversation with @Beuysaunt & @patrick_oshag
“Narrative is fear made conscious and conquered through action.” “Things don’t happen to you. You act against obstacles. With knowledge comes power to affect the outcome.”
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Thoughts? @rorysutherland
🚨 JUST IN: The Trump administration is now looking into normalizing PORTABLE MORTGAGES - allowing Americans to keep their interest rate, term and lender when moving to a different home. FHFA Director Bill Pulte: "We are actively evaluating portable mortgages." This also allows
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This is a fantastic exchange. For those trying to understand the complications around pharma pricing, innovation, China innovation fears, subsidies, PBMs, this is a great summary from one of the best in the game.Reminder- we only understand 10-15% of human biology. @EliLillyandCo
Dave Ricks has been at @EliLillyandCo for 20% of its 150-year history. He came to the pub, poured his own Guinness, and gave us a 2-hour state of the pharma union: drug prices, clinical trials, patent clocks, the rise of generics, Chinese peptides, compounding pharmacies, the US
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3/Even pivoting is not possible other than markets- you can't just pivot around technology. Folks just took methods from SaaS and other markets where customers determine the success of a startup and applied it directly to deep tech startups. Academia decided to run with it! STOP!
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